I started thinking about how it must be for Gil, sitting in engineering, knowing Ryder is out there fighting and constantly in danger. No wonder Gil has been known to work on the ship for days at a time without sleeping. He can’t do anything for his boyfriend while he’s out in the field so Gil’s gonna make damn sure the ship and all their equipment will never let him down.

To anyone who thinks Nesryn’s arc in ToD is Maas’s way of implying that she, herself, is “anti emigration/immigration” THIS IS FOR YOU!

[Ahem] How are your shoulders feeling after you dislocated them reaching for that one?

Look. People. I’m not trying to be an asshole, really. I just think if you’re going to spread rumors and propagate fake news and lies about other people, you should make sure you can back them up with facts. And you should make sure you know what you’re talking about. Maas being anti emigration/immigration is NOT one of the things we can qualitatively critique Nesryn’s arc for in ToD. And here’s why:

As a mixed-race woman who lives in the U.S. with a brown dad and a white mom, it’s INCREDIBLY DEMEANING for ANYONE to assume that I AM NOT ALLOWED to feel at home in my father’s family’s home country (Or my mother’s for that matter!).

It’s INCREDIBLY DEMEANING for ANYONE to assume that I AM NOT ALLOWED to feel at home or more comfortable around people WHO LOOK LIKE ME.

HECK YOU HAVE SUBMIT OPEN I’VE WANTED TO SUBMIT THIS SINCE LAST YEAR
Ah old art but I’m still actually pretty dang proud of how I drew the clothes n junk
I kinda made it mostly for CC back when her icon was Luciel.
Here’s the thing I made when I posted it to my page
“I mentioned on the MWSIH Christmas Stream that Maverick was pretty much Unknown (edgy, mysterious, generally just a sinnamon roll that just wants freedom and icecream), so I drew them clothes swapped.
Not sure if you can tell, but Maverick’s tryna copy Unknown’s pose bc he’s “cool”
Anyways I was kinda hesitant to make this bc spoilers, but if you take the right turns you can see Unknown in the prologue, soo…
Ye but I hope you like it I spent loads of time on it. (I hope I got Maverick’s clothes right…)“

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I think it’s fair to post now but I’ll tag Mystic Messenger spoilers just in case.

Don’t know very much about Mystic Messenger. CC got into it a while back so I have osmosis-style absorbed some info about it.

In working on this comic, I got to thinking about something: I’m glad we know more about what fueled this moment now:

All of their past and all anger aside, Journal 3 showed us that Ford was in fight mode. Moments before this scene, he was battling literal demons in what is basically Hell after 30 years of preparation. The flight half of fight of flight was long out the interdimensional window (portal?) at this point. Everything inside of him was directed at “destroy Bill.” If not for that, I wonder what would have been different. (AU where the portal opens when Ford is just randomly wandering some other dimension?)

But if we take that a step further into the realm of implications, it gets worse. It’s pretty heavily implied that this was a suicide mission for Ford. He 100% did not expect to survive his encounter with Bill. Stan wasn’t facing his brother here. He was facing a suicidal man in fight mode who’d been betrayed, who’d lost everything and who’d been denied his revenge and the consequences he believed he deserved for the mistakes he’d made.

Stan saved him but in that moment, he didn’t want to be saved.

(Of course Stan had no way of knowing that. He was still working off of the instruction to “do something!” And I think he would have saved him anyway if he did know, but he might have been more prepared to be punched by knowing he was getting involved in a volatile situation.)

(Oh… How about an AU where the portal opens right as Ford destroys Bill and Stan saves him at the last moment before the Nightmare realm implodes? I have a feeling this would have played out a little differently…)

Have you met Sidon, the Zora prince yet? If so, isn't he dreamy? For a fish guy that is. xD Also he cracks me up. Most of the Zora crack me up in this game.

I LOVE SIDON I need to draw him ahh,

I was in the middle of hunting along a river side before I got to the zora people and once I interacted with one it was just a shit storm and I got accosted by 5 different zora at that point chillin in the water and they were all like ARE YOU A HYLIAN??? You SHOULD GO SEE THE PRINCE- like yes yes I know the Fish Prince of Bel-Air needs help ok I got it the fist four damn times actin like JabuJabu’s Witness BUT IM BUSY

I’m a ho for side quests and THEY JUST KEPT interrupting me SO IM LIKE FINE ILL GO SEE THE FISH STICK JESUS- then when I got to him I was like holy damn your Fineness I’m so sorry I didn’t know forgive me???

In case it wasn’t obvious from the title, this contains spoilers. Mostly random bits from the movie that stood out to me. I tagged this as spoilers, but in case it slipped through or something, this is your second warning.

I was looking at the Big Hero 6 artbook and saw this concept art by Don Hall. All I could think was that post-movie, the gang had an all-night study session and somebody dared somebody (probably Hiro daring Fred) to cut off Wasabi’s dreadlocks while he’s sleeping. And of course, Wasabi doesn’t realize until Honey Lemon holds up a mirror at breakfast and Hiro, Fred, and Gogo are dying of laughter in the background.

I’ve got a bit pieced together from the spoilers and some of this’ll draw from stuff other people said and a little I thought of on my own but I’m gonna try to cover a few things all at once.
SPOILERS BTW(gonna tag it anyways but just in case)

This is gonna take a little while but I think the place to start would be with what the descriptions of these two specials can already tell us

Right off the bat I’m not the best at translating French but before I go ahead with butchering that translation let’s unpack what the visuals show us.

For starters there’s several new Akumas and heroes and right off the bat we can recognize all the heroes and a few akuma but it also stands out that Queen Wasp is Queen B and “Malediktor” looks like her dad. So since it looks so similar to her suit as Queen B it seems reasonable to assume that the events of “Le Combat des Reines” take place after “Le Tour des Heros”.

As for the new akumas, previews have confirmed who The Collector and Troublemaker will be and a few others seem obvious given character designs but a few will obviously be new characters and on the whole would be best explored on their own like how the snowmanlooking one may be why we saw the ice-skating preview; but it also stands out specifically that there are so many Akumas simultaneously thus necessitating the introduction of three new heroes who we know to have each been akumatized before so that alone will either mean that they’re gonna have to be deakumatized before they become heroes or their Miraculouses will protect them.

And that seems like best way to lead up to talking about how several sources who translated the commentaries from the video we got these images from all agree that it was said that Marinette will be the one handing out the new Miraculouses so Alya becoming Rena Rouge is an obvious choice seeing as she already tried to make her Ladybug in the origin episodes and by extension it makes sense for her to give one to Nino as Carapace ore “Shell” as some people have been translating it, but it gives cause for us to wonder why she’d ever trust Chloe to become a superhero. There’s some simple explanations right off the bat like about how it happens during an emergency and she was low on options or it happens after Chloe had already started showing progress towards becoming a better person, but one theory I saw that stood out was that Marinette would’ve originally tried to give it to Adrien but as we all know Adrien already has one so he gives it to one of his oldest friends and I sorta like this not only because it’d show Marinette trusting Adrien with a responsibility she doesn’t know he already has but from her perspective it could look like he gave it up like she almost did. And to further support this, Ladybug would probably b confused if the person showing up with the bee miraculous is obviously not the person she gave it to so I’m gonna bring up a spoiler we got tweeted to us a couple of months ago a short piece of their script:

Here we have Chloe just straight up telling whomever she’stalking to who she is which in the context of Ladybug being confused about why she’s obviously not Adrien makes some sense.

Next things I’m gonna address will have to do with translations from what we see so bare with me and if I’m very wrong please let me know so I can correct myself.

For starters I can at least read that “Les Tour des Heros” is a 2 part special but the best I could translate the title to was “The Hero’s Turn” which isn’t very helpful. As for the rest of it the picture tells the story about as well as I can try to translate it; there are new heroes and many villains.

‘Les Combat des Reines” translates to “The Combat of Queens” and is described as a trilogy so that paired with the previously statement that the Bourgeois family is being controlled by Style Queen leads me to a few conclusions.

First the plurality of combat of queens make me suspect that the big fight this will ultimately be about will pit Queen B against Style queen with her family at stake.

Next, I already mentioned that this seems like it takes place after the other one so gonna guess that paired with my theory from before that Chloe tells the rest of the team who she is this could lead to some mistrust as most of the rest of the team recognize her as a bully so I think that may be the beginnings of a team divide that ultimately lead here, making it necessary for Chloe to show and prove that as Queen B she can be a hero for reasons that aren’t just because she idolizes Ladybug so much. And beyond that some level of distrust withing the team as a whole is sort of expected because Thomas Astruc was asked to share a spoiler so he tweeted a poster of Captain America: Civil War prompting a panic that the heroes would fight each other about something.

All that aside there’s one final set of theories I thought I’d at least attempt to cover while I’m at this and that is to do with all the Chinese Zodiac Kwamis we saw

And there’s not really that much concrete information to go off of here but it is known that there’s a planned episode with Ladybug in Shanghai.

Which again doesn’t tell us much, they’re both basically just concept images.

There is however a secondary theory that seemed to spring up out of a bunch of people separately comparing Kwamis they liked to the main cast and what this one boils down to is that the rest of their class somehow ends up with these Zodiac Kwamis; popular theories being that Kim gets the dragon or that Alix gets the snake both based in part on their personalities and the aesthetic of their character designs. For me this idea came to mind when the mouse and/or rat Kwami reminded me of rose because they were both small but someone pointed out that the listed Kwamis leaves out the Rabbit and/or Hare and that they thought she’d be more fitting of that based on how she acts.

There’s a lot here and I know there’s probably more to share so feel free to add in the comments (assuming I post this correctly). Also if I’ve made any major mistakes then please let me know about that.

It said in Owain’s description that he’s “the most apt to shout “Level up!”” so this image came into my head and I couldn’t get rid of it :Y (Click on the images to see captions if ya can’t read my writing, I really tried, whoops)Also guess who finally finished Fire Emblem Awakening after having to replay the whole thing to remind themselves of the story it’s me eyyyy

If you want me to apologise for this, wait until tomorrow or smth when I regret my life choices

so i was playing a little bit of metroid: samus returns earlier and i really like those metroid fights were the metroids run away from you mid boss battle? and you have to chase them down through rooms and corridors until you find them again and finish them

it’s such a nice touch? cause like, the entire plot of metroid: samus returns is literally samus hunting all the remaining metroid population in planet SR388, and the metroid running away from her after you deal some damage and samus having to hunt them down and -find them- so the boss battle can go on REALLY does feel as if she’s the threat here, not the other way around, SHE’S the bounty hunter, she’s the one hunting the metroids, she’s the outside force who’s come to this planet to destroy them

she’s not afraid of them, -they are- and idk, it’s such a nice and haunting touch

Anyone else notice the faces in the pillars?? I dont know if theyre new but either way they are freaky. The pattern is the same on the rune pillars in the center of the circle as well. I am very spooked now.